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Posted: Tue, May 21, 2024 10:19:24 AM

that i HAVE survived every emotion i ever had, i can take a bit of solace in the truism, no one has ever died from an emotion, although many have died reacting to them. today, as i got on the scale at the office of my doctor for my annual Medicare Wellness check, my weight screamed at me at 194 lbs. it has been five years since i was in the one-nineties and it tells me that i have some work to do on my diet and caloric intake. BUMMER, although as i get closer to being able to run again, perhaps that will not be the case. i also forgot one of the three words that i had to repeat as a test of my memory status. not the best result, but perhaps i can let it roll off my back. the feelings, well i am not feeling the best over those results, but i do have the ability to make changes that i need to make myself feel good again about what those numbers on the scale say.
moving forward, i do have to look at what i do on a daily basis and wonder if i can move forward into running and hiking without issue, once again. i know that if i continue what i am doing, perhaps those numbers will return to where i desire and i will not be so obsessed with that number, that i forget the word “heaven.” sitting here, pounding out this exercise as i am listening in on my work meeting, i feel okay about how my life looks theses days, even as i start deciding what needs to be donated to VVA and what i am not ready to part with, yet. there is a bit of sadness about parting with my “things,” even though i am still not all that attached to those things. yes, it seems i am far more of a hoarder and a materialist, than i want to admit. i can get past what i really do not want to be and allow myself the FREEDOM to grow into what i may become. just for today. i will allow myself to feel whatever comes up the pike and not worry about the whys, wherefores or judgements, as i am quite certain that a feeling cannot harm me, permanently anyhow. 🤪

∞ DT ∞


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Tao Te Ching

☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯

The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge

Book 2

1) The things which from of old have got the One (the Tao) are--

Heaven which by it is bright and pure;
Earth rendered thereby firm and sure;
Spirits with powers by it supplied;
Valleys kept full throughout their void
All creatures which through it do live
Princes and kings who from it get
The model which to all they give. All these are the results of the
One (Tao).